Method: String#wikitext_preprocess

Defined in:

lib/wikitext/preprocess.rb

#wikitext_preprocess ⇒ Object

This is an example preprocessing method that will be called by the String#to_wikitext method prior to feeding the markup into the parser. In this case we take input like this:

For more info see issue #125, which was filed last week.

And transform it into:

For more info see [/issues/125 issue #125], which was filed last week.

Which in turn is translated into the following HTML by the parser:

<p>For more info see <a href="/issues/125">issue #125</a>, which was
filed last week.</p>

Obviously this file is an example designed to work with a specific application and is optional, so will only come into play if explicitly required. To provide different behavior, simply define a new definition of String#wikitext_preprocess.

For now this is done in pure Ruby; if speed became a concern we could provide a fast Ragel C extension to do it instead.

# File 'lib/wikitext/preprocess.rb', line 47

def wikitext_preprocess
  gsub /\b(bug|issue|request|ticket) #(\d+)/i, '[/issues/\2 \1 #\2]'
end